The faint sprite he did revoke again,
To her frail mansion of morality.
Spenser.

2.

Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.

Shak.

3.

To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

[Obs.]

[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.
Spenser.

4.

To draw back; to withdraw.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

5.

To call back to mind; to recollect.

[Obs.]

A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience.
South.